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Re: Paul George and sharing the ball

Ive noticed Paul is not making the extra pass. Not going to label him unwilling or a bad passer but at times esp here recently it has been true.

I think Paul gets tunnel vision when trying to go 1 on 1. I am not advocating a trade or anything crazy, but it is a trend I have noticed more recently. Put simply Paul is not getting his teammates involved as much as I would like to see. Maybe that has more to do with the offense I don't know.

the bad passes having been present most of the season. trying to make a bullet pass to Roy in the midst of traffic is more often than not a low % play.

Lance has actually really been doing well in this regard lately. Its like it is finally starting to click with him, as evidenced by interviews where he has mentioned Coach Vogel emphasizing the easy pass.

I don't think its too much of a concern, but it is an area I would like to see Paul improve in. Its obvious defenses are paying exclusive attn. to him. Making an extra pass from time to time would be beneficial.

Another example of this just from last nite was the fast break where Paul had George Hill trailing... the extra pass to Hill there would have been perfect. Instead Paul blew the layup and Hill was there fortunately for the putback.

This team is a still a work in progress.. best record or not there are areas for improvement. Again, not a huge issue but would be nice to see Paul get his teammates involved a little more than he has at times,,, esp if his shot is not falling.

Re: Paul George and sharing the ball

Pacers have the best record in the NBA. Paul George is a top 2-3 perimeter defender. A top 5-10 offensive player in the NBA IMO. He is the 3rd best player in the NBA according to a lot of people these days. A lot of you are bringing up great points, but some of these posts are pretty insane.

Trading PG
Saying Lance is our best player (I do think he is a top 25 player, and top 5-10 wing player in the NBA, but his defense is not close to what PG brings to the defense IMO)

I mean come on, he has games where he struggles, as do all players. And at the end of January he had 3 of those in a row. And hasn't started February great (though his last two games have not been awful). BUT can we look at the big picture please?

Re: Paul George and sharing the ball

Remember beginning of last year? You know when Danny went down and nobody was willing to step into the lead role and because of it we were scoring 75-85 points a game every game?

What was everybody calling for here? They were calling for Paul George to step up and be the man on offense. So now he has and has turned himself into a top 5 player in the NBA and now we question whether he is being too aggressive offensively? Who cares even if he is; your argument that everyone in the starting lineup can score so why doesn't he facilitate more? Well if that were true why weren't we a good offensive team beginning of last year? No, not everybody on this team can score, everybody on a given night is capable of having big games but don't mistake that for everyone on our offense is capable of being a high usage player. Every offense needs a high usage player there is just no way around it unless you have 2-3 superstars on one team which we don't. Thus Paul has taken the high usage role and done it very well.....is he struggling now? Sure obviously but you can't just ungreen light him....I mean so if we do what happens? We run more sets for Roy, more sets for Hill, make our oldest player on the team our go to guy? I mean we have 2 players capable of filling a high usage role, Lance and PG and they both are doing more than fine so yea I think this thread is an overreaction thread to his recent slump.

Re: Paul George and sharing the ball

Ive noticed Paul is not making the extra pass. Not going to label him unwilling or a bad passer but at times esp here recently it has been true.

I think Paul gets tunnel vision when trying to go 1 on 1. I am not advocating a trade or anything crazy, but it is a trend I have noticed more recently. Put simply Paul is not getting his teammates involved as much as I would like to see. Maybe that has more to do with the offense I don't know.

the bad passes having been present most of the season. trying to make a bullet pass to Roy in the midst of traffic is more often than not a low % play.

Lance has actually really been doing well in this regard lately. Its like it is finally starting to click with him, as evidenced by interviews where he has mentioned Coach Vogel emphasizing the easy pass.

I don't think its too much of a concern, but it is an area I would like to see Paul improve in. Its obvious defenses are paying exclusive attn. to him. Making an extra pass from time to time would be beneficial.

Another example of this just from last nite was the fast break where Paul had George Hill trailing... the extra pass to Hill there would have been perfect. Instead Paul blew the layup and Hill was there fortunately for the putback.

This team is a still a work in progress.. best record or not there are areas for improvement. Again, not a huge issue but would be nice to see Paul get his teammates involved a little more than he has at times,,, esp if his shot is not falling.

Exactly. I've seen Paul do this on a fast break a few times. He even owed Hill for sharing the ball on the alley oop right before that. Hard work is what got Paul to where he is at now. I hope he doesn't forget that and get too full of himself. Not saying that is the case yet, but he does seem to be a bit more selfish with the ball lately when it's not really there.

Re: Paul George and sharing the ball

Melo usually brings it offensively every game and our weakness is going through stretches where we don't score. But that was just one possibility, we could target guys like Eric Gordon, Kawhi Leonard, Batum from Portland, Thaddeus Young from the 6ers, Chandler Parsons or maybe Gordon from the Jazz if we have no other takers.

I'm sorry folks but PG's game just isn't that good.

PG is better than Melo by a long shot right now due to defense. If people are complaining that the ball has stopped at PG on offense, oh my would people go nuts with Melo on our team.

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Re: Paul George and sharing the ball

Paul George is playing a minute and a half less this season than last season and is averaging a whopping .7 less APG than last year while scoring almost 6 points a game more than he did last year and somehow instead of analyzing these numbers, some would rather label him an unwilling passer or a ballhog.

Re: Paul George and sharing the ball

Seems like several times a game, Paul holds the ball and puts up a low percentage shot. Besides Mahinmi, all of our players can score, yet Paul seems reluctant to pass. Last night's game, Quinn Buckner mentioned that Paul shot instead of passing to an open Scola. Is this the coaches telling Paul to put up x number of shots per game? Or is this Paul trying to become Kevin Durant?

Re: Paul George and sharing the ball

Hill passes the ball to DWest and sometimes Paul George. I spend quite a bit of time watching for it...and I have not seen him pass to Lance in games. Really. I know he has, I just haven't seen much of that.

Re: Paul George and sharing the ball

That drive to the basket and kick out to West on the most important play of the game was real selfish. Then, when West missed the shot and PG came back to high five him at the time out as to say "hey, you've been doing work tonight and I'd go to you again", also selfish. PG is just a "Paulhog", yep, you're right.